The Most Efficient Way to Ensure a Reservation in Hell

By Jeffrey Goldberg

There are many ways to qualify for a spot in Hell -- murdering, raping, pillaging, cable-TV-show-hosting -- but the best way, it seems to this blog, is to steal money that actually belongs to survivors of the Holocaust:

Over 16 years, the suspects used fake identification documents,
doctored government records and a knowledge of Holocaust history to
defraud the fund of more than $42 million, according to an indictment
unsealed Tuesday by the United States attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara.

The defendants, the indictment says, would recruit applicants -- many of
them from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn -- through Russian-language
newspapers, offering help to people applying for compensation from the
Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. In many cases,
the immigrants' actual experiences would be manipulated or tailored to
fit the requirements of the fund; once the payments were approved, the
defendants would receive kickbacks from the applicants, according to
the indictment.